Articles

Holding power accountable – a Pacific journalist’s journey through assaults and censorship

Exposing autocracy from military-ruled Fiji to democratic Samoa, journalist Shalveen Chand has faced cell blocks, state censorship and physical assaults for holding Pacific powers accountable. Now joining the Cook...

Mary Kostakidis: How Gaza exposed the Australian media’s failings

An edited version of a speech Mary Kostakidis delivered at the Media Diversity Australia Symposium where she spoke...

Gaza mass killing documentary a warning of global dystopian future

REVIEW: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report I have watched the most disturbing film in my lifetime...

A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’

This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in...

Palestinian researcher exposes Israel’s list of so-called ‘terrorist’ journalists slain in Gaza as smear

COMMENTARY: By Stephen Prager Seeking to discredit reports of its unprecedented killing of journalists in Gaza, the Israel Defense...

IFJ condemns Indonesia over bribery, harassment attempt on RNZ journalist

Pacific Media Watch A Radio New Zealand Pacific journalist has alleged that an Indonesian official attempted to both bribe and intimidate him following an interview...

PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua

By David Robie, editor of Café Pacific Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week that may...

Being homeless in PNG is a ‘death sentence’, says Moresby’s Raymond

By Theophiles Singh in Port Moresby Living in the Papua New Guinea capital of Port Moresby without a house or a source of income is...

Milne Bay governor explains secret meeting with notorious PNG gang

By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby “I will surrender if you guarantee I will not be killed,” says Eugene Pakailasi, who took over leadership of...

PNG leader James Marape denies Papua human rights comments were his

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has backtracked on his comments that PNG had “no right to comment” on human rights abuses...

In the US, investigative journalists are blacklisted, ostracised and even jailed – in New Zealand, they are honoured

Nicky Hager received a major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and...